The first report from the European Financial and Economic Crime Centre, created in 2020, delivered on 11 September by the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and the Director of Europol, Catherine De Bolle, revealed that almost 70% of criminal networks operating in the EU use some form of money laundering to finance their activities and conceal their assets.
More than 60% of criminal networks operating in the EU use various methods of corruption, with these ‘bribes’...